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GENEROSITY                “Do you want the rest of my cereal?” my youngest son asks.                “I do!” I answer.                Every meal, he always leaves a bite.  Every  meal, I gladly finish his plate.                We both know that it’s a game, that if he leaves a bite and I eat it, he is freed […]

               6:30, I wake my youngest son.  He is still in bed, eyes closed, and under sheets; but his mind is alert and moving.                “I’m writing a poem,” he tells me from his bed.                “That’s awesome!” I respond.                “I was writing it in my dream,” his eyes still closed.                “I’ll leave […]

               It played again today as offering hymn.  I recognized in the opening notes, lived again association and memory.                 My daughter sat beside, my arm around her shoulder, as we listen and I saw her searching for the memory—association to song and sound eluding whole of understanding.                “How do I know this song?” […]

               We lost another game.  I’d like to say we looked better, have turned a corner—but we haven’t, not yet.                 Sometimes, when we’re working to be better, we look worse before improvement and the effort show.  That’s part of the learning, part of the growth—doing before we’re fully prepared but must do, still, because […]

               “Who can know God’s counsel, or who can conceive what the LORD intends?  For the deliberations of mortals are timid, and unsure are our plans.  For the corruptible body burdens the soul and the earthen shelter weighs down the mind that has many concerns.  And scarce do we guess the things on earth, and […]

        Twice this week I prayed for rain.         Twice this week—it fell, not a lot, not heavy and flooding, but enough to sign my prayers were heard.         All spring and early summer, all it did was rain.  Finally, it stopped, and when it did, I did not pray […]